On Jun 20, 2011, at 15:31, Cullen Jennings wrote: > This is all a sort of confusing point of many IETF documents and not unique > to this one. I think the important points is that for many IETF documents, > the people listed on the front page are not the authors. Typically the list > of authors is a much longer list. And to clarify what I mean by Author, I > mean it in the sense that it would used in copyright law. I do think the > Acknowledgements section needs to identity anyone who is a contributor to the > document. The limit on number of people on the front pages makes it > impossible to even put all the authors on the front page if we wanted to.
Ceterum censeo: A situation that is untenable. (And that may actually be problematic in countries with droit d'auteur/Urheberrecht such as Germany, but that's not my point.) Gruesse, Carsten _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
